Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Descriptive Grammar of Hakhun Tangsa

该句的核心交际功能包括识别活动的参与者。识别“谁对谁做了什么”的信息的数量和类型因语言而异。在许多语言中，一个单词或词缀用来表示做动作的人的基本信息，即第一人称（我，我们），第二人称（你，你所有人）或第三人称（他，她，他们）。在印度东北部的Hakhun Tangsa语言中，如果第三人称对第二人称起作用（他吻了你），或者第二人称对第一人称起作用（你吻了我），则必须在动词中添加额外的信息，称为反向标记。克里希纳·博罗将利用逆标记和其他显著特征来确定Hakhun在由30多种语言组成的唐莎语系中的位置，以及唐莎语系在藏缅族北那迦语系中的位置。南亚有超过250种藏缅语，但其中许多语言尚未被系统地记录下来，因此这些语言的历史仍然不清楚。在俄勒冈大学的斯科特·德兰西（Scott DeLancey）的指导下，母语是藏缅语的博罗（Boro）将编写一套全面的、描述性的哈浑唐萨语法。这将成为研究北那加语谱系的主要语法特征的独特资源。该语法将构成实用的正字法和教学材料的基础。Krishana Boro还将对社区成员进行语言记录方法的培训，以便在主要项目完成后，他们可以在交通不便的地区继续进行语言记录。通过这个项目创造的所有材料将被保存在濒危语言档案馆。

A core communicative function of the clause includes identifying the participants in an activity. The amount and type of information that identifies "who did what to whom" can vary from language to language. In many languages a word or affix is used to indicate basic information on the person doing the action, i.e., 1st person (I, we) 2nd person, (you, you all), or 3rd person (he, she, they). In the northeast Indian language Hakhun Tangsa, if 3rd person acts on a 2nd person (he kissed you) or a 2nd acts on 1st (you kissed me), additional information, called inverse marking, must be added to the verb. Inverse marking and other such distinctive features will be used by Krishna Boro to determine the place of Hakhun within the Tangsa family, which consists of over 30 languages, and the place of the Tangsa family within the Northern Naga branch of the Tibeto-Burman family. There are over 250 South Asian Tibeto-Burman languages but many of these are yet to be systematically documented and as a result the history of these languages remains unclear.Under the direction of Scott DeLancey of the University of Oregon, Boro, who is himself a native speaker of a Tibeto-Burman language, will produce a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Hakhun Tangsa. The Hakhun grammar along with recordings and analysis will form a unique resource for the study of key grammatical features for reconstructing the language lineage of the Northern Naga languages. The grammar will form the basis for a practical orthography and teaching materials for the Hakhun community. Krishana Boro will also train community members in language documentary methods so that they can continue language documentation in less accessible regions after the primary project is finished. All materials created through this project will be archived at the Endangered Languages Archive..